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For those looking for an alternative solution, I'm currently running Mopidy on a Raspberry Pi connected to a old Logitech iPod speaker dock that also has an aux input, and have a music library on a home NAS (Helios4 from kobol.io).

Mopidy acts as a jukebox, streaming files from the server and locally managing playlists and a queue. It enabled me to reuse my old speakers, put a RasPi to good use, and offers a responsive web UI to manipulate the queue from our phones. It was the best low-requirement open source solution I found.

https://mopidy.com/

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What I want to do is plug multiple pi’s into aux speakers, a pi to Bluetooth speakers, and then airplay whatever from my iPhone. All the speakers would play the same thing.

How can I do what you’re doing but with airplay and multiple speakers?

try Volumio (https://volumio.org/). it can do both multiroom and airplay.

This seems like a guide to do so: https://github.com/skalavala/Multi-Room-Audio-Centralized-Au....

This is why I liked Google Audios. It gave me this exact setup, but they sadly discontinued manufacturing them.

They still work great though! you can’t buy more from google but they are on eBay and craigslist etc

Didn't realized they stopped making them... love the devices myself, have two as well as a couple chromecasts, and a couple nvidia shield tv devices. Only thing missing is a nice home media server interface for them, but I haven't looked in a while, someone may have one or more now.

70% of the time, I'm on the shield playing video from my nas in kodi... most of the rest, casting to audio + speakers in the bedroom with rain/storm sounds.

Ah, you're in luck. Shairport-Sync [0] should be exactly what you're looking for.

Anyone know an alternative that works with (non-rooted) Android devices?

[0] https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync

To each their own, but having heard all the Logitech iPod docks, they sound bad.

It can literally be any other speaker or amp with an aux port.

Absolutely, I was commenting on their choice of speaker. Not sure why that’s such a controversial comment

It's not controversial, it's mostly downvoted (as of this writing). I'm guess it was downvoted because it adds ~nothing to the conversation. Might as well have commented "this", or all that was added.

Yeah, and those gold plated HDMI connectors make the picture just so much, sharper!

Gold plated? Ha! Those are for the poor and uncultured.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/AudioQuest-Diamond-Cables-Standard-...

Make sure you also get a high definition power cable!

https://i.postimg.cc/hjDtmpjh/received-134188887920986.jpg

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